Johannesburg
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The Junction
The Junction, originally on the corner of Bree and Claim Street, was owned by Shayne Leith who previously owned Decodance in Market Street (which eventually became Le Club). The Junction opened in 1988 and closed sometime in 1991 before moving to a short-lived run at Ponte. It had two dance floors. One was dark with… Read more
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Scants Laserdrome
Scants opened on the 19th August 1983 at 180 Fox Street. The owners, Stan Herson and Bruce Kennedy would later go on to open Heaven, but this was the pair’s first foray into the nightclub business (although in the 1970s, Stan was involved with the first incarnation of Mandy’s in End Street when he converted… Read more
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Heaven mixtapes
Heaven was a nightclub that ran from 14 June 1985 to the end of 1987 in Johannesburg at 165 Marshall Street. Many will know this address as being that of the original Doors nightclub that opened in 1990 and operated there for many years before moving to Edenvale. Between Heaven and The Doors, two other… Read more
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reJHB – My JHBLive monthly feature starts this week
Starting this week, JHBlive are running a series of monthly historical features I’ve written about Johannesburg, loosely connected to my blog on the history of Johannesburg. The first feature on the brief history of Johannesburg’s cemeteries can be read here. © Marc Latilla 2013. All rights reserved. This content may not be reproduced without permission. Read more
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Old Johannesburg new blog post up
Check out the next installment of my old Johannesburg suburb by suburb research on Jeppestown & Belgravia Of interest are these pictures I found in the Africana Museum Archives showing tram lines running under the train lines (when they were still on street level). Grand Central Hotel, also famously known as Norman’s Grill, is in… Read more
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Old Johannesburg blog
I’ve been writing a blog on old Johannesburg for the past few years that was initially inspired by finding out the house we live in was almost 100 years old (it’s officially 100 now). I went on a mission to find a photo of the house as it was back then which led to the… Read more
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